Grundprobleme der Nationalokonomie; Untersuchungen uber Verfahren, Aufgaben und Inhalt der Wirtschafts Und Gesellschaftslehre by Mises, Ludwig Von - 1933

London: John Murray, Albermarle-Street, 1820. First Edition. Paper-covered Boards. First Edition, with the rare 4-page publisher's catalog, dated April 1820, of this classic of economic theory. 8vo: vi,601, 1]pp. "London: Printed by C. Roworth, Bell-yard, Temple-bar." on colophon and title-page verso, as called for. Uncut, in the original publisher's drab blue paper-covered boards, largely unopened, with brown paper spine and remnants of original printed label. Internally, fresh and bright with only occasionally spotting, original spine largely perished but restored sensitively by an expert conservationist, the boards somewhat stained and bumped but thoroughly original, hinges reinforced. Small owner's book label, probably contemporary, partly effaced, reading T ? Cobb. Clamshell case with leather spine label gilt. An unsophisticated copy of a truly scarce (in publisher's binding), important, and desirable book, a cornerstone of economic thought and a major influence on other scientific endeavors,… Read More

Octavo, contemporary cloth backed boards with loss of original paper to boards, printed paper label rubbed, pp.xii, 267, without the half title, a good copy.
Blaug: Great Economists before Keynes, pp.135-137. Seligman: On some neglected British Economists, 1903, pp.46-52. Schumpeter: History of Economic Analysis, pp.464-465. See L.S.Moss: Mountifort Longfield: Irelands first Professor of Political Economy, 1976. Kress C3771. Goldsmith 28434. Not in Bradshaw Collection of Irish Books, Cambridge University Library.

FIRST EDITION by Samuel Mountifort Longfield, who was Ireland's first Professor of the Whateley Chair of Political Economy at Trinity College, Dublin.
"Longfield's general theory of value is noteworthy in that he not only puts very lucidly the influence of cost of production upon the supply side of the equation between supply and demand, but calls attention to the demand side as well...Longfield uses profits in the sense of general returns to capital, and that his theory of profits is… Read More

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1932. Ninth Edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Published Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1932. 8vo., viii+298pp., illustrated. Pale green cloth with black titles. Light soil to the cloth, previous owner name on fly leaf, else very good, binding straight and tight, unworn. . Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1949. Hard cover in original cloth and dust jacket. Published New Haven: Yale University Press, 1949, third printing (October, 1949). Large 8vo., xv+889pp. "This book is the counterweight of Marx's Das Kapital and of Lord Keynes' General Theory and of countless other books...In this analysis of the fundamental drives to action of human beings, he shows why only the free market and free enterprise can produce that outpouring of goods and services that is democratically controlled..." Gray cloth with black titles. Previous owner name/offset toning on flyleaf, inscription on free endpaper, small edge spot, else very good, bright and attractive in very good, lightly edgeworn dust jacket (not price clipped) with a long closed tear at the hinge fold, and minor soiling. Scarce in dust jacket. . Hard. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth and dust jacket. Published New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957, first printing. 8vo., ix+384pp. "This is the economic philosophy of one of the original and untrammeled minds among economists of this century. It is the work of a staunch believer in the necessity for the individual to make his own choices..." Blue cloth with gilt titles. Near fine, unworn, crisp, in price clipped, very good plus dust jacket with a closed tear and 2 tiny chips along the top edge. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 8vo.

London: John Murray, Albermarle-Street, 1820. First Edition. Paper-covered Boards. First Edition, with the rare 4-page publisher's catalog, dated April 1820, of this classic of economic theory. 8vo: vi,601, 1]pp. "London: Printed by C. Roworth, Bell-yard, Temple-bar." on colophon and title-page verso, as called for. Uncut, in the original publisher's drab blue paper-covered boards, largely unopened, with brown paper spine and remnants of original printed label. Internally, fresh and bright with only occasionally spotting, original spine largely perished but restored sensitively by an expert conservationist, the boards somewhat stained and bumped but thoroughly original, hinges reinforced. Small owner's book label, probably contemporary, partly effaced, reading T ? Cobb. Clamshell case with leather spine label gilt. An unsophisticated copy of a truly scarce (in publisher's binding), important, and desirable book, a cornerstone of economic thought and a major influence on other scientific endeavors,… Read More

Octavo, contemporary cloth backed boards with loss of original paper to boards, printed paper label rubbed, pp.xii, 267, without the half title, a good copy.
Blaug: Great Economists before Keynes, pp.135-137. Seligman: On some neglected British Economists, 1903, pp.46-52. Schumpeter: History of Economic Analysis, pp.464-465. See L.S.Moss: Mountifort Longfield: Irelands first Professor of Political Economy, 1976. Kress C3771. Goldsmith 28434. Not in Bradshaw Collection of Irish Books, Cambridge University Library.

FIRST EDITION by Samuel Mountifort Longfield, who was Ireland's first Professor of the Whateley Chair of Political Economy at Trinity College, Dublin.
"Longfield's general theory of value is noteworthy in that he not only puts very lucidly the influence of cost of production upon the supply side of the equation between supply and demand, but calls attention to the demand side as well...Longfield uses profits in the sense of general returns to capital, and that his theory of profits is… Read More

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1949. Hard cover in original cloth and dust jacket. Published New Haven: Yale University Press, 1949, third printing (October, 1949). Large 8vo., xv+889pp. "This book is the counterweight of Marx's Das Kapital and of Lord Keynes' General Theory and of countless other books...In this analysis of the fundamental drives to action of human beings, he shows why only the free market and free enterprise can produce that outpouring of goods and services that is democratically controlled..." Gray cloth with black titles. Previous owner name/offset toning on flyleaf, inscription on free endpaper, small edge spot, else very good, bright and attractive in very good, lightly edgeworn dust jacket (not price clipped) with a long closed tear at the hinge fold, and minor soiling. Scarce in dust jacket. . Hard. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth and dust jacket. Published New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957, first printing. 8vo., ix+384pp. "This is the economic philosophy of one of the original and untrammeled minds among economists of this century. It is the work of a staunch believer in the necessity for the individual to make his own choices..." Blue cloth with gilt titles. Near fine, unworn, crisp, in price clipped, very good plus dust jacket with a closed tear and 2 tiny chips along the top edge. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 8vo.

Large octavo, 20.5 x 13.0 cm, 3 pages in French in ink.£2,000 [plus VAT at 20% if applicable]Gilbert Urbain Guillaumin (1801-1864) was co-founder of the Journal des Economistes in 1842 and was publisher of the French translation from the third edition of Mill's Principles of Political Economy and Representative Government and Charles Dupont-White (1807-1878) was the French economist who translated Mill's Representative Government.In this fine letter Mill asks Guillaumin to send copies, now approaching publication, of his Le gouvernement représentif to his Avignon friend and writer on economic and agricultural subjects Auguste Picard and the positive philosopher Célestin de Blignières (1822-1905).Mill reports that he leaves for Greece on January 29th, and to forward to Poste Restant Athens anticipated articles on his book by Emile Littré (1801-1881) and on books of Dupont-White in the Journal des Débats.Marion Filipiuk, Additional Letters of John Stuart Mill, no.529